Groklaw - Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!

[Teddy Mills]

I hope that Novell and IBM do the right thing.
That is, knock SCO out, like SCO wanted to knock them out.
Dont let your enemy fight another day.



James Knott wrote:
> Colin McGregor wrote:
>   
>> --- James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070810165237718
>>
>> FANTASTIC!!!
>>
>> Quick reading of the article, Novell owns the Unixware
>> copyrights!, Novell has every right to waive any
>> infringement issues with IBM, so now there is ZERO
>> question regarding IBM having done anything wrong (IBM
>> having maintained that they didn't do anything outside
>> the letter of their agreements, and didn't require
>> Novell's blessing, that point is now irrelevant).
>>
>> Further the judge noted that SCO owes Novell $ for the
>> licenses sold to Microsoft and Sun, how much is still
>> to be decided. This will almost certainly bankrupt
>> SCO. 
>>
>> Also, while SCO's case against IBM is now decapitated
>> and gutted, IBM's case against SCO is untouched. So,
>> if by miracle (and that is what it will take) SCO does
>> survive the current encounter with Novell, IBM will
>> kill the company...
>>
>> A great day :-) .
>>
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>>     
>
> Essentially, SCO lost their claims, but the Novell and IBM counterclaims
> stand. It sure sounds like launching those claims and others wasn't such
> a good idea.  ;-)
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